Re: .PDF's for blind users

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This wouldn't get files that have the bits set to prevent conversion to text. See:

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/Adobe/Gallery/

RAYNER Peter writes:
> 
> The following from my .mailcap file
> application/pdf;pdftotext -raw  %s -
> 
> Not perfect but I'd see 10 pdf documents a day and get about 8 of
> them.  I should download a new xpdf package too to see if it gets the
> last 20%.  It's usually font encodings that seem to break things
> ... usually from LATeX files so I just hassle the author for the
> original.  I think the breakthrough is overstated. 
> Peter
> 
> 
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina@afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org

   Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
   See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html




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